{"product_id":"the-underground-railroad","title":"The Underground Railroad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished:  UK, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Little, Brown, Book\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780708898406\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colson Whitehead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57256369160523,"sku":null,"price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780708898406.jpg?v=1778344852","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/the-underground-railroad","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}